Free Five Women Serial Killer Profiles by Sylvia Perrini

adopted the children on the 18th of March in 1960 and changed their surname to Wuornos. They raised the children alongside their own: Barry and Lori. The children only found out their true identities when Keith was thirteen and Aileen twelve. They were both emotionally disturbed and distraught at the revelation .

    The Wuornos Home
    When Aileen was six, while playing with her brother Keith and firelighters, she became badly burned and received permanent scarring to her face. Aileen, as a child, suffered from violent temper tantrums that would come seemingly out of nowhere.

    Lauri Wuornos
    According to Aileen, her grandfather, Lauri, abused her sexually and physically from an exceptionally young age and whipped her with a willow branch right up to the time he kicked her out of his house, and her grandmother, Britta, was an abusive alcoholic. The young Aileen quickly learned to blank out any emotions. During her time at junior high school, Aileen began showing signs of poor hearing and vision problems. The school recorded her IQ as 81, which is in the range of low dull-normal. The school wanted Aileen to receive counseling and tried to improve her behavior by giving her a mild tranquilizer to control her fits of temper.
    Blonde, brown-eyed Aileen was sexually promiscuous at a young age. By the age of ten , she and her brother Keith, who was her closest companion, experimented sexually with each other. Aileen was a happy and willing participant in these activities. Aileen’s attention then moved on, and she would sneak out of her parent’s house and make her way to a meeting spot the neighborhood kids called “the pits.” Here, at the age of only eleven and having just entered puberty, Aileen exchanged sex with the older students at Troy High School for cigarettes, drugs, and money. The boys treated Aileen with no respect and would call her names and ignore her in public. One of her friends from the “pit days” was Dawn Botkins, who ended up being the one true friend Aileen ever had. Dawn’s older brother was the best friend of Aileen’s brother Keith. When she was fourteen, Aileen found herself pregnant. She claimed an older man raped her. It is speculated now that a man in the neighborhood, known as “the chief,” may have been the culprit.

    The Chief
    Her grandparents sent her to a home for unmarried mothers in Detroit. Here, she gave birth on the 23rd of March in 1971 to a baby boy who was immediately given up for adoption. Aileen was resentful for years afterwards that she had never even been allowed to embrace her son before he was taken from her forever.
    When Aileen returned home, she dropped out of school and spent her days hanging around the streets, drinking , and taking drugs. It was the time of the ending of the Vietnam War, and drugs such as marijuana, LSD, mescaline, and assorted pills were easily accessible. Her favorite music was Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and the Moody Blues. In July of 1971, her grandmother Britta died of liver failure. Aileen’s grandfather, no longer able to cope with Aileen or her brother, threw them out of the house. Aileen, now fifteen, took to prostitution to support herself through a bitterly cold winter in Michigan. She spent many nights sleeping rough in the woods in the snow near her home with a local cross dressing teenage transvestite. Other nights she would sleep in old abandoned cars and on, occasion, in a friend’s house. Occasionally, she would get lucky, and a client in exchange for sex would put her up for the night in a sleazy motel but for most of the time, it would be the woods. Troy’s climate during the summer is warm with temperatures tending to be in the 80s but during the winter it becomes extremely cold. She described this period of her life as a living hell. One wonders where the social workers where or why the close-knit community of Troy were allowing a fifteen-year-old child to live like this. This was supposedly a modern democracy, a caring